cherry-picker
Bucket on boom
A cherry-picker is a hydraulic crane with a platform at the end, used to lift workers to elevated positions—for trimming trees, repairing power lines, or similar tasks.
The name evokes reaching up to pluck fruit.
Figuratively, a cherry-picker is someone who selects only the most favorable facts, data, or options while ignoring others: The report was criticized as cherry-picking statistics.
Loud deep sound
- liftMechanism for vertical transport
- aerialElevated, or signal-catcher
- platformRaised flat structure
- hydraulicRelating to pressurized liquids
telescopic · bucket · articulating · elevating · hoist · manlift · scissor · genie
Overly particular about preferences
- pickyExcessively selective or particular
- discerningHaving keen judgment
- particularSpecific or fussy
- fussyExcessively particular
fastidious · selective · finicky · nitpicking · bias · statistics · data · favorable
boom
Loud deep sound
hydraulic · telescopic · bucket · articulating · elevating · hoist · manlift · scissor · genie · crane
choosy
Overly particular about preferences
- pickyExcessively selective or particular
- discerningHaving keen judgment
- particularSpecific or fussy
fussy · fastidious · selective · finicky · nitpicking · bias · statistics · data · favorable · misleading
orchard
Fruit tree plantation
seasonal · farmworkers · ripe · yield · gathering · crop · stem · pitted · pruning · agriculture
dunk
Briefly submerge in liquid
basket · rim · backboard · layup · putback · second-chance · hustle · tip-in
cherry-pickerhonest broker
Impartial third-party negotiator
impartial judge · devil's advocate · steelman · truth-seeker · straight shooter
pick, cherry, picking, picked, picks, picker, cherries, cherry-picked, pickers